go back to Hawaii

-swim with dolphins

-eat taro, tiny little bananas, and those spiny-looking fruits I saw when I felt too sick to try them

-drink pog

-sit on a beach and do absolutely nothing

-swim in the warm ocean

-see Hana

-see Honokahau Valley again

-drive to the shore in the wee hours of the morning, wade into the warm water, dry off, hang around on the sand, and watch the sun come up

-do something or other with the native population again…being a goofy haole I felt a little intimidated in general and taken aback by their humor at times, but boy do I miss the elders sometimes

well, seeing ‘Ulalena is a must. Other than that I’m just letting myself dream and brainstorm without any thought even to feasibility…

-go to Keola Beamer’s Hawaiian music camp

-spend a day at Ni’ihau

-snorkel at Lehua; see the “keyhole”

-if the restoration efforts at Lehua have come far enough along, bring a really good camera and document its re-greening

-see Kaohikaipu Island and Manana Island off O’ahu

-swim or take an outrigger canoe to a tiny, uninhabited island

-spend a night or two at the most ridiculously elaborate fantasy resort I can locate

-see for myself if Moloka’i is really as overrun with wild chickens as I’ve been told

-camp somewhere

-find somewhere good and natural to just walk and walk all day long